Following in the footsteps of an HTC-assembled Pixel XL with a 5.5-inch AMOLED screen from Samsung, the 6-inch Pixel 2 XL employs a relatively thin-bezeled LG P-OLED display that hasn’t been exactly well-received by reviewers and early adopters.

The troubling part is numerous tech journalists who’ve received Pixel 2 XL units before the masses for testing purposes have reported seeing something similar (and similarly serious) over the past few days, prompting a standard response from Google, at least for now.

The company’s spokespeople ensure everyone worried about the phone’s “advanced POLED technology” that it’s been put “through extensive quality testing before launch.” Nonetheless, these reports are being “actively” investigated.

If you don’t know exactly what you’re looking at, it appears the software navigation buttons have “burned into” the 6-inch OLED screen of the Google Pixel 2 XL unusually fast, leaving (barely) visible traces at all times. You have to look closely to see the “ghost images”, but this is a problem that constantly gets worse once it crops up.

Let’s hope it’s not very widespread, and there’s at least a way to prevent it from extending any further.

Adrian has had an insatiable passion for writing since he was in school and found himself writing philosophical essays about the meaning of life and the differences between light and dark beer. Later, he realized this was pretty much his only marketable skill, so he first created a personal blog (in Romanian) and then discovered his true calling, which is writing about all things tech (in English).